The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
THE unanimity with which the city

ed his comments must have Rugged him.
self with delight at having thus averted
disaster from the city. holy ministers
of grace" upon what slender threads the
prosperity of city hangs! and what q
cause for congratulation that the city of
Manitowoc has local press so devoted
to its interests that it is ever on the alert
to correct misapprehensions and stop the
current of malicious rumor! The future
of the city. is secure. The Times, in its
salutatory under its new management,
outlined the upbuilding of the city as
one of the great tasks to which it purpos-
ed addressing itself. 1t furnished the
first brick for the structure in posing as
the special champion of the coal docks
! with its rapier unhinged and the froth of
vlrtuous anger attesting the sincerity of
its indignation, because of an unprovok-
ed assault upon coal docks. Good Heav-
ems, what spectacle of patriotic virtue!
| Spontaneous and without thought of
| favors to come it stands as the embodi-
| ment of local pride and devotion to local
interests.
| And Carl, our own puissant Carl, hob
| bles forward to raise his hand and foot
In solemn protest against any attempt
| to decry Manitowoc institution. Per-
| sonal liberty is for the time forgotten.
| With true Knight Grant spirit he enters
| the lists with cultural growl of defiance,
proudly conscious that the people of the
| city look upon him as the custodian of the
city's rights, the scented darling who as
carpet knight or armoured warrior stands
ever as the peoples choice. Could
three line item mentioning the unsub-
stantial character OF the coal docks es-
cape his argus eye? That eye of blue
before whose glance the doughty politi-
clans quail; that eye whose fire Niagara
could not quench; that eye whose eagle
glance takes note of all things hostile or
friendly to the city common purpose
makes Carl and The Times yoke-fellows,
with The Tribune as leader in tandem
procession
And Sandford, who fatters not neither
does he whine, Sandford the Truculent,
who in biblical history found no charac-
ter more admirable than Ishmael, Sand
ford who asks no quarter and seldom
gives any, whose baby lips must have
been kissed by the god of strife, thus de-
voting him to perpetual warfare, Sand
ford who seldom joins in the chase be-
cause the hounds are many, even he has
been seized with mania for building up
the city by denying that the coal docks
are in any sense insubstantial.
Now let the screech owls whose notes
of doleful import were like blasts of pesti-
lence, hide their heads III shame. The
newspaper trinity has decreed that the
city must be built up, ay, and that what
we have must be preserved and protect
ed against assault. The Don Quixote of
The Times, the Sancho Panza of The
Tribune and the Falstaffian head of Der
Northwestern are in the field with breast
works thrown up in front of the coal
docks, and having vows registered that
not a lump of coal shall be touched by a
sacreligious hand while spark of vaIor
fingers in their breasts.
Is not this a sublime spectacle? Is it
not an omen of good to the city? Are
not the people satisfied that under such
protection the docks are safe? Every
resident of Manitowoc may fall into
peaceful slumber embarrassed by fear that
the coal docks are not here to stay.
Their permanent" character is vouched
for by three men, not one of whom it is
safe to venture, ever personally inspect
ed them,-vouched for with such feverisn
alacrity that the arguments jostle one
another and crowd with such unseemine
haste that In print they look like mob
of words, tumbling over one another like
crowd of anarchists or a scrub base
ball nine digging it" after a batted ball
in lumpy field.
The item was most harmless one.
There was not bit of dynamite about it.
1t would not have blown the city to
smithereens even though the super-val-
| orous city press had not bounced upon
| it and subjected it to heroic treatment
| with view to rendering it innocuous.
| Little Jasper could have squelched it SO
| easily that the mayor would hardly have
| deemed the service worthy of extending
| the little Arab the freedom of the CITY.
| 1t was no reflection upon Mr.. Tice. 1t
| was simply putting IN words rumor, and
! written by person driven for time and
| oppressed by overwork who kindly con-
| sented to give editorial assistance that
week. The super-serviceable zeal of the
other papers made any amends to Mr..
Tice last week impossible without the ap-
pearance If being driven to that step
| through fear OF the warriors in paint Mr..
| lice has retired from the management of
the docks and The Pilot is free to admit
| it regrets having caused him ANNOYANCE.
1t has always found him a thorough gem
| tleman, far above the ordinary business
man In intelligence and if there was anv
error in the construction of the coal
docks the error certainly was not his.
This dReRde honorable is cheerfully ac-
corded him as his due, and not because
of those who rushed to his relief. The
Pilot has no mission to build up the city.
What 1T may do in that line while at
tempting to build up itself is all it cares
for IN municipal architecture. So far as
the coal docks are concerned. -
| a. " -om than have all the
| combined.
An interesting feature of the county
fair Will be number of fish known as
German carp which Mr.. August Klessig